Next Generation Datacenters in Financial Services: Driving Extreme Efficiency and Effective Cost Savings (Complete Technology Guides for Financial Services)

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Illustrated
2009
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Financial markets are witnessing an unprecedented explosion in the availability of data, and the firms that survive will be able to leverage this information to increase their profit and expand their opportunities in a global world. Large firms must build their own datacenters to manage this data. In such an environment, the CIO's ability is crucial to lead an effective data strategy to capture, process, and connect data to all the relevant lines of business. At the core of this strategy lies the datacenter - the repository of all information. While there are books that discuss the mechanics, hardware and technicalities of datacenters, no book has yet made the connection between enterprise strategy and datacenter investment, design and management. Next Generation DataCenters in Financial Services is a solution driven book for management that demonstrates how to leverage technology to manage the seemingly infinite amount of data available today. Each chapter offers cutting-edge management and technology solutions to effectively manage data through datacenters.

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Financial markets are witnessing an unprecedented explosion in the availability of data, and the firms that survive will be able to leverage this information to increase their profit and expand their opportunities in a global world. Large firms must build their own datacenters to manage this data. In such an environment, the CIO's ability is crucial to lead an effective data strategy to capture, process, and connect data to all the relevant lines of business. At the core of this strategy lies the datacenter - the repository of all information. While there are books that discuss the mechanics, hardware and technicalities of datacenters, no book has yet made the connection between enterprise strategy and datacenter investment, design and management. Next Generation DataCenters in Financial Services is a solution driven book for management that demonstrates how to leverage technology to manage the seemingly infinite amount of data available today. Each chapter offers cutting-edge management and technology solutions to effectively manage data through datacenters.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 306
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: 11 Sep 2009
ISBN 10: 0123749565
ISBN 13: 9780123749567
Book Overview: A solution-driven resource for senior IT management in financial services on re-purposing and developing data centers that align with enterprise business goals.

Media Reviews

Tony Bishop leverages his unique experience and understanding of business process and technology in presenting a clear path for evolving today's datacenter to one that is far more agile, high performing, leveraged, and cost-effective. This is a must read for financial institutions focused on leveraging their ongoing IT investments under a new paradigm; one that breaks down barriers to be far more responsive to market shifts and proactive in attacking market opportunities. --Paul D. Jameson, Director, Global Financial Services, Cisco Systems Tony has provided a very comprehensive cookbook of how to transform the legacy data centers to the next generation data centers. He provides logical advice and easy to follow instructions based on his real life experience on the dos and don'ts so those who follow his advice should be able to save considerable time and effort on their own transformation. It is not only for the financial services industry, but anyone dealing with complex information technology modernization that needs to support an agile business which is almost every business. This should be a must read for anyone on the journey to the next generation data center. --Brian K. Ott, Vice President Global Service Lines, Systems and Technology, Unisys Tony brings together a rare combination of business alignment and IT discipline to solving the crisis firms face with their datacenters. His proven track record resonates throughout the book with sound, logical advice for firms to implement transformation in a consumable building block manner. The strategy blueprint laid out methodically in the book can be best summarized for readers as business differentiation through IT transformation. --George A. Vega, CIB Managing Director, Global Markets & Investment Banking Technology

Author Bio

TONY BISHOP is the Founder and CEO of Adaptivity, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, with teams in New York City, San Francisco, London, and Tokyo. As Chairman and CEO, Tony leads the team and provides hands-on coaching, thought leadership and executive strategy support for our key clients and partners. He is an innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations. He most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia's Corporate Investment Banking Technology Group, where his team designed, built, and implemented a leading-edge service-oriented architecture and utility computing infrastructure.Tony Bishop is well-known in the industry for having led the team that built Wachovia's award-winning data center. The team was awarded Network World's Enterprise All-Star Award for successfully consolidating infrastructure and applying green computing strategies to achieve a project ROI of 300% (50 applications over 300 servers were reduced to 50 shared/allocated servers). Tony has been quoted and interviewed widely in the media on his innovative and successful approach to data center optimization. Examples include:* Your Datacenter Makeover: Have Someone Else Do It , On-Demand Enterprise, August 17, 2008 [http://www.on-demandenterprise.com/features/Your_Datacenter_Makeover_Have_Someone_Else_Do_It.html]* Beth Schultz, How to create a business-boosting virtualization plan, Network World, 08/18/2008 [http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2008/ndc5/081808-ndc-virtualization-strategic-planning.html]